Improvement in backband-hooks for harness



PATENT OrrrcE.

SAMUEL REYNOLDS, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BACKBAND-HOOKS FOR HARNESS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,993, dated July 11, 1871.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL REYNOLDS, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Backband-Hooks, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being` had to the annexed dra-wing making a part of this specification, and to the letters and iigures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation of a vertical section of backband-hook with backband attached. Fig. 2 is a front view of backband-hook without bacliband.

This invention has relation to an improvement in the construction of backband-hooks usedon plow-harness, the object 0i' which improvement is to render the backband easily adjustable to suit differently-sized horsesfand keep it secure and rm when adjusted to the proper size. rlhe hook is adapted in its construction to leather backbands.

is also provided with two laterally-located hooks, E, the legs or points of which are long and project downward in the direction of the plane or curve of the hook-frame. These hooks are inserted through holes made for that purpose in the backband, the latter passing over the bar C and under the bar C. The hook-frame, it will be noticed, is slightly curved to suit the band which is curved by the form of the horse. The loop or plate d is formed with a shorter curve, its convex face in contact with the backband, and sufficiently raised to prevent the latter from accidentally slipping. The hooks E are made long so as to prevent them from drawing out of place, and are of such a form as to allow the backband to be easily adjusted thereon, the baclrband being provided with a series of perforations for each hook with this object in View.

I claim as my invention- The backband-i'astening herein described, provided with the hook B, middle bar (l, and bar C', having the guard d and the lateral rigid prongs or hooks E E, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

` SAMUEL REYNOLDS.

Witnesses:

CHARLES P. HUXLEY, H. STONE. 

